| 1920-04-32-page088 THE CONCRETE AGE APRIL, 1920
all of the vehicles will have been delivered to the
States. This equipment promises to be a great aid
in. carrying out the large road building program
for 1920.
The State highway commissioners are also
interested in securing allotments of tractors, steam
shovels, locomotive cranes, automotive cranes, in-
dustrial railway track, dump cars, and industrial
locomotives which remain to be disposed of by the
War Department. A measure known as the Kahn
Bill, directing the Secretary of War to release this
material for the State highway commissioners, has
passed the Senate and has been reported out of
committee in the House. Until the Secretary of War
has been directed by Congress to turn over this
equipment it is not likely that it will be available
for State distribution.
Model Village for Asphalt Works
Plans have been completed by the New Trinidad
Lake Asphalt Co. at Brighton, West Indies, for a
model village for its own workmen and those of
associated oil companies and construction work is
to be started immediately.
The new village will be located on the company’s
property near the asphalt lake, and will be laid out
with all modern conveniences, including streets,
waterworks, sanitary sewerage, and electric light-
ing. Houses for families will be located in one
portion of the village, and each house will have a
fenced yard where the family can have a kitchen
garden. Separate houses with a parcel of land
around each house will also be provided for the
foremen. The barracks for single men will be built
along sanitary linefc and will be equipped with
showers. Separate apartments, with kitchens, will
be built for small families or married men without
children.
The houses first constructed will be occupied by
the permanent employees of the company, but it is
contemplated to construct
quarters sufficient to
house also casual workmen who may be given em-
ployment by the company.
The present system of allotting from one-half
to one acre of land for a garden to those who desire
to cultivate a plot of ground will be continued.
Concrete Tenement Houses for Milan, Italy.
Consul Winship reports from Milan, Italy, that
in order to relieve the housing situation in that city
plans for the construction of about 1,000 concrete
tenement houses in addition to those under construc-
tion have been prepared. These will be built on a
cottage type in separate buildings, accommodating-
four families each, in all about 5,000 persons, and
occupying an area of about 400,000 square meters.
Engineering Feat 2,000 Years Old.
The Chengtu irrigation system is one of the most
noteworthy examples of an early engineering feat
and deserves to rank with the Pyramids. The head
waters of the system are in the foothills of the Tiber-
tan Mountains at the city of Kwan Hsien, where the
Fu Kiang breaks through the northern part of the
plain and makes its mad rush toward the sea. The
river bed falls in level 1.200 feet during its seventy-
mile trip along the edge of the plain. Some idea of
the magnitude of the engineering task may be real-
ized from the fact that the flow during a freshet is
not far from 30.000,000 cubic feet of water a minute,
approximately the flow of the Niagara River.
The irrigating water is taken from the main river
just before a gap in the hills is reached and is con-
ducted by an artificial river through a gorge cut in
the mountain side. After passing the mountain bar-
rier the artificial river is divided into three main
branches which in turn are subdivided again until
an irrigation ditch serves every acre of the plain.
The regulation of the flow of water into the irriga-
tion ditches is one of the most ingenious parts of
the plan. First, the cut in the hill was made just
wide enough so that the volume of water entering
when the gauge stood at a predetermined level would
fill without overflowing the ditches everywhere over
the plain. A flood due to overflowing of the ditches
is a rare occurrence. Second, to prevent the water
from rising higher than the gauge, the artificial river
is provided with by-passes before it reaches the
gorge. These by-passes allow all the excess water
that cannot enter the gorge to flow back into the
main river. This entire section of the artificial river
has banks flanked with bamboo, filled with stones—
masonry and various permanent banks have been
tried but given up in favor of the bamboo baskets,
replaced every year during the dry season. —H. K.
Richardson, in Asia.
Publisher’s Statement.
Of the ownership, management, etc., of The Con-
crete Age. published monthly at Dalton, Ga., Edito-
rial office at Dalton, Ga., Business office at Atlanta,
Ga., required by Act of August 24, 1912.
B. H. Watts, Editor and Managing Editor. Dal-
ton, Ga.
H. E. Harman, Publisher, Atlanta, Ga.
H. E. Harman, Manager, Atlanta, Ga.
(Signed) H. E. HARMAN, Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day
of April, 1920.
FRED McSWAIN,
Notary Public Georgia, State at Large.
(My commission expires February 1, 1922.)
(O. J. Houser in P
hiladelphia Press.)
(O. J. Houser in P
hiladelphia Press.) | 1920-04-32-page088 THE CONCRETE AGE APRIL, 1920
all of the vehicles will have been delivered to the
States. This equipment promises to be a great aid
in. carrying out the large road building program
for 1920.
The State highway commissioners are also
interested in securing allotments of tractors, steam
shovels, locomotive cranes, automotive cranes, in-
dustrial railway track, dump cars, and industrial
locomotives which remain to be disposed of by the
War Department. A measure known as the Kahn
Bill, directing the Secretary of War to release this
material for the State highway commissioners, has
passed the Senate and has been reported out of
committee in the House. Until the Secretary of War
has been directed by Congress to turn over this
equipment it is not likely that it will be available
for State distribution.
Model Village for Asphalt Works
Plans have been completed by the New Trinidad
Lake Asphalt Co. at Brighton, West Indies, for a
model village for its own workmen and those of
associated oil companies and construction work is
to be started immediately.
The new village will be located on the company’s
property near the asphalt lake, and will be laid out
with all modern conveniences, including streets,
waterworks, sanitary sewerage, and electric light-
ing. Houses for families will be located in one
portion of the village, and each house will have a
fenced yard where the family can have a kitchen
garden. Separate houses with a parcel of land
around each house will also be provided for the
foremen. The barracks for single men will be built
along sanitary linefc and will be equipped with
showers. Separate apartments, with kitchens, will
be built for small families or married men without
children.
The houses first constructed will be occupied by
the permanent employees of the company, but it is
contemplated to construct
quarters sufficient to
house also casual workmen who may be given em-
ployment by the company.
The present system of allotting from one-half
to one acre of land for a garden to those who desire
to cultivate a plot of ground will be continued.
Concrete Tenement Houses for Milan, Italy.
Consul Winship reports from Milan, Italy, that
in order to relieve the housing situation in that city
plans for the construction of about 1,000 concrete
tenement houses in addition to those under construc-
tion have been prepared. These will be built on a
cottage type in separate buildings, accommodating-
four families each, in all about 5,000 persons, and
occupying an area of about 400,000 square meters.
Engineering Feat 2,000 Years Old.
The Chengtu irrigation system is one of the most
noteworthy examples of an early engineering feat
and deserves to rank with the Pyramids. The head
waters of the system are in the foothills of the Tiber-
tan Mountains at the city of Kwan Hsien, where the
Fu Kiang breaks through the northern part of the
plain and makes its mad rush toward the sea. The
river bed falls in level 1.200 feet during its seventy-
mile trip along the edge of the plain. Some idea of
the magnitude of the engineering task may be real-
ized from the fact that the flow during a freshet is
not far from 30.000,000 cubic feet of water a minute,
approximately the flow of the Niagara River.
The irrigating water is taken from the main river
just before a gap in the hills is reached and is con-
ducted by an artificial river through a gorge cut in
the mountain side. After passing the mountain bar-
rier the artificial river is divided into three main
branches which in turn are subdivided again until
an irrigation ditch serves every acre of the plain.
The regulation of the flow of water into the irriga-
tion ditches is one of the most ingenious parts of
the plan. First, the cut in the hill was made just
wide enough so that the volume of water entering
when the gauge stood at a predetermined level would
fill without overflowing the ditches everywhere over
the plain. A flood due to overflowing of the ditches
is a rare occurrence. Second, to prevent the water
from rising higher than the gauge, the artificial river
is provided with by-passes before it reaches the
gorge. These by-passes allow all the excess water
that cannot enter the gorge to flow back into the
main river. This entire section of the artificial river
has banks flanked with bamboo, filled with stones—
masonry and various permanent banks have been
tried but given up in favor of the bamboo baskets,
replaced every year during the dry season. —H. K.
Richardson, in Asia.
Publisher’s Statement.
Of the ownership, management, etc., of The Con-
crete Age. published monthly at Dalton, Ga., Edito-
rial office at Dalton, Ga., Business office at Atlanta,
Ga., required by Act of August 24, 1912.
B. H. Watts, Editor and Managing Editor. Dal-
ton, Ga.
H. E. Harman, Publisher, Atlanta, Ga.
H. E. Harman, Manager, Atlanta, Ga.
(Signed) H. E. HARMAN, Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day
of April, 1920.
FRED McSWAIN,
Notary Public Georgia, State at Large.
(My commission expires February 1, 1922.)
(O. J. Houser in P
hiladelphia Press.)
(O. J. Houser in P
hiladelphia Press.) |
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